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Issue 1, Volume 8,
January 2011
Title of the Paper: Campus ERP
Implementation Framework for Private Institution of Higher Learning
Environment in Malaysia
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Authors: Raja Mohd
Tariqi Raja Lope Ahmad, Zalinda Othman, Muriati Mukhtar
Abstract: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are widely used by many
multinational companies throughout the world. Recently, many institutions of
higher learning have replaced their legacy systems to ERP systems as a means
for integration advantages. Investment with this ERP system are representing
the largest investment for institutions of higher learning, they invest
millions of dollars and the time taken for the implementation sometimes takes
two to three years, or even more. Without a solid history of successes and
failures, implementers are at a disadvantage in knowing how best to implement
ERP systems so that they will provide operational and strategic benefits to
their owners. Due to these problems, this research is carried out in order to
establish an implementation Campus ERP framework for Malaysia private
institution of higher learning base on the hybrid framework.
Keywords: Campus
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Framework and Institution of higher
learning
Title of the Paper: Conceptual Semantic
Relationships for Terms of Precalculus Study
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Authors: Velislava
Stoykova, Maya Mitkova
Abstract: In this work, we present the results of research using the
techniques for semantically-oriented statistical search for extracting
mathematical terms for precalculus with applications to education, terminology
and ontology. We offer the combination of statistically-based techniques
incorporated in the software for extracting keywords, collocations and
co-occurrences as the useful tools for teaching courses development, domain
terminlogy definitions, and building ontologies.
Keywords: Basic Science in
Engineering Education, New Technologies in Education, Research and Education,
Computers, Internt, Multimedia in Engineering Education, Research and
development in Engineering Education
Title of the Paper: Importance –
Satisfaction Analysis for Wiley Plus in Vector Calculus: Students’
Perspectives
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Authors: Norngainy Mohd
Tawil, Azami Zaharim, Izamarlina Asshaari, Nur Arzilah Ismail, Zulkifli Mohd
Nopiah
Abstract: Online teaching tools is widely used to facilitate the incorporation
of self-learning methods. An initiative to apply online teaching tools within
the classes of Vector Calculus is part of the faculty effort to improve
achievement of engineering students. The aim of this study is to evaluate the
level of importance and satisfaction of the components in WILEY PLUS, an
elearning approach that offered in Vector Calculus course in UKM. The study
employed mean analysis to measure the importance and satisfaction level. The
differences between this mean show the gap values. T-test assists the gap
value analysis in explaining the difference, if any. Questionnaires
distributed to 193 students of four departments in the Faculty of Engineering
and Built Environment. The finding shows that the students agree on the
importance and satisfaction towards WILEY PLUS components. However, the
students’ importance is higher than the satisfaction towards WILEY PLUS
components.
Keywords: WILEY-PLUS,
Level of importance, Level of satisfaction, Vector Calculus, elearning
Issue 2, Volume 8,
April 2011
Title of the Paper: Integrated Project:
Comparative Analysis of Lecturers’ And Students’ Assessment of Program
Outcomes
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Authors: Siti Rozaimah
Sheikh Abdullah, Mohd Sobri Takrif, Abu Bakar Mohammad, Noorhisham Tan Kofli,
Manal Ismail, Masturah Markom
Abstract: The Department of Chemical and Process Engineering (JKKP) has taken
an initiative to implement an Integrated Project (IP) for students in Year II
and III since the 2006/2007 session. The IP combines three or four department
courses offered at each semester. It is related to a problem in chemical or
biochemical engineering that has open-ended solution. This approach allows the
students to adopt generic skills of leadership, teamwork, oral and written
communication and searching for the latest information through the process of
lifelong learning. Student achievement in completing the IP has been measured
and assessed through presentations and reports. At the end of each
presentation, students were asked to fill out a questionnaire on the
implementation of IP. The questionnaire has been modified and geared towards
assessment of program outcomes (PO) set to be achieved from the IP, in line
with the evaluation form filled by each lecturer in assessing each group in
IP. A comparative analysis between the perception of students and evaluation
performed by lecturers on the IP implementation was conducted to a batch of 60
third year students in Semester II Session 2009/2010. The results from these
two aspects of the assessment score, given by the lecturer and student opinion
from the survey on achievement of program outcomes through IP followed the
same trend. This shows that not only students who felt that the IP was very
useful to their learning process, but from the aspect of lecturer evaluation,
the lecturers also found that students have benefited from the IP
implementation.
Keywords: Communication;
generic skills; integrated project (IP); lifelong learning; programme outcomes
Title of the Paper: Comparison between
Level of Students’ Responses toward Cooperative Learning in Mathematics
Engineering Courses at UKM
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Authors: Izamarlina
Asshaari, Haliza Othman, Noorhelyna Razali, Norngainy Mohd Tawil, Fadiah Hirza
Mohd. Ariff
Abstract: Mathematics is a crucial language in all engineering courses and
researches where mathematical modeling, manipulation and simulation are used
extensively. But Engineering Mathematics courses are regarded as uninteresting
and difficult courses in engineering curriculum. This is reflected in
engineering students’ performance at the end of each semester for these
courses. This paper presents the implementation of cooperative learning at
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment (FKAB), Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia (UKM); which aims at introducing an innovative teaching and learning
methodology. It is emphasized the use of cooperative learning (CL) as an
alternative technique in order to enhance learning in Engineering Mathematics
courses. In implementing CL in the teaching and learning of Engineering
Mathematics courses, it is important to have a better understanding on
students’ reflection on CL; which is a key component in the development of
learning and teaching process and also students’ generics skills. This paper
emphasized on the individual students’ respond toward CL activities and how
they coping with free-rider in Engineering Mathematics courses. A set of
Likert scale questionnaires was given to two groups of students from two
difference courses at FKAB, UKM; Engineering Mathematics I: Vector Calculus
(consist of 41 year one students) and Engineering Mathematics III:
Differential Equation (consists of 60 year two students); and the data were
analyzed, rank and compared. Data ranking was used to show differences in the
views of year one and year two students on their respond toward CL activities
and coping with free-rider. Data shows that students’ respond positively
toward CL and development of teamwork skills shown while attending to the
free-rider issues. Thus, this learning method do helped engineering students
to understand better in their learning process and enhance their generic
skills, in which it assisted to increase their interest toward the learning of
Engineering Mathematics courses.
Keywords: Cooperative
learning; students’ response; cooperative learning structure; mathematics
engineering
Title of the Paper: Evaluation of
Academic Performance of Electrical Engineering Students based on Gender and
Various Entry Levels
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Authors: Pauziah Mohd
Arsad, Norlida Buniyamin, Jamalul-Lail Ab Manan
Abstract: The enrollment of students in tertiary education throughout Malaysia
shows an imbalance in terms of gender percentage. This paper investigates the
female academic performance of Electrical Degree students at the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering of Universiti Teknologi MARA’s (UiTM) based on the
student’s entry levels. The study was based on the longitudinal progress based
on three consecutive intakes of matriculation students namely July 2005, July
2006 and July 2007. We applied the same methodology to three other consecutive
intakes of Diploma July 2006, July 2007 and July 2008. Cumulative Grade Point
Average (CGPA) was used as the key performance index. In addition, this paper
stresses on the total population of female students compared to male students.
The outcomes of the research indicate that female students performed better
than males in most cases. The strong ability in fundamental engineering
foundation and self efficacy of the female students greatly influenced the
overall academic performance.
Keywords: Female, academic
performance, engineering foundation, self efficacy and CGPA
Issue 3, Volume 8,
July 2011
Title of the Paper: Including
Integrating Projects in Engineering Curricula
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Authors: D. M. Viana, M.
F. Souza E. Silva, A. C. Santana, H. Abdalla Jr
Abstract: This paper addresses the challenge of applying new pedagogical tools
by reporting the experience of project-based learning implementation, begun in
the Mechanical Engineering course at the University of Brasilia. Due to
pre-existing social, political and ideological conditions in the institution
and the consequent difficulties of performing structural changes in the course
curriculum, no significant change as such was proposed in this work. An
environment for developing interdisciplinary projects has been established,
allowing for opportunities to construct technical and non-technical knowledge.
The experiment was conceived from a proposal that foresaw the creation of
three design engineering courses throughout the Mechanical Engineering
curriculum which may be characterized in three steps. First, a set of
subjects/courses was chosen according to the projects to be accomplished; the
second step was characterized by projects whose topic was chosen in order to
involve other courses at the Faculty of Technology; finally, the third step
aims to encompass projects with a wider scope. The report concerns the period
from 2007 to 2010 covering the first two steps of implementation. Aspects such
as number of students involved, related courses and institutional support are
also discussed.
Keywords: engineering
curriculum, engineering education, project-based learning
Title of the Paper: The Pedagogical
Skill - Another Factor of Ensuring the Quality in High
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Authors: Mirela Mazilu
Abstract: As a management of quality, the educational management becomes a
scientific instrument generating future, performance and efficiency, a
relatively new paradigm of approaching pedagogy, a necessary methodological
stage in order to achieve efficiency in the activity of training and
developing the human personality.
The purpose of this paper is to highlight a necessity of 2012, namely: the key
to quality in Romania’s higher education (where I perform) lies within the
term “adaptation”: an adaptation to students’ motivation, their learning
styles, Romanian society values , their needs in a “crisis” economy, future
prospects, etc. A higher quality education requires the integration of
democratic values and principles, rights and obligations of partners, being
designed in a spirit of transparency, accountability and involvement, both of
universities as providers of education and families – students and parents –
as beneficiaries of the education service.
The total quality management is a successfully applied concept in all the
social and economic sectors. TQM (Total Quality Management) - the total
quality management combines the oriental philosophy, respectively the Japanese
one, with the western one, respectively American, as well as with the
precision, the know-how between the two parts of the Globe.
The penetration of the total quality management in the sector of education is
natural because, as all the other fields of economic and social life, this
sector undergoes a process of identification of some very efficient methods in
order to cope with the current changes, as well as to predict and project the
improvement of some situations that can appear in the future.
Keywords: knowledge,
educational management, know-how, high education, performance, e-learning
Title of the Paper: Thermofluids
Virtual Learning Environment for Inquiry-Based Engineering Education
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Authors: Konstantin
Volkov
Abstract: Thermofluids science plays an important role in industry, technology
and environment, and contributes to the sustainable development of modern
society. The thermodynamics and fluid mechanics are two essential disciplines
of interest to the engineering profession. The study aims to develop the
inquiry-based computer virtual laboratory (virtual learning environment) to
augment engineering modules using principles of fluid mechanics and
thermodynamics, and to increase students’ understanding and skills in
CAD/CAE/CAM technology and mathematical packages used in mechanical, aerospace
and automotive engineering. The iterative nature of the virtual laboratory
directly addresses several components of engineering education and follows the
cyclic model for knowledge generation and improvement. The CFD tools and other
computational components of virtual learning environment are discussed, and
their capabilities to be used in teaching process are analyzed. The study
demonstrates that CFD becomes a useful tool for undergraduate and postgraduate
research and education.
Keywords: Inquiry-Based
Learning, Thermofluids, Learning Environment, Virtual Laboratory
Issue 4, Volume 8,
October 2011
Title of the Paper: Realisation of
Human Super-Intelligence (Developmental Learning)
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Authors: Alexander A.
Antonov
Abstract: It is demonstrated that technical advancement results in the
development of more and more intellectual human-computer systems which can
make the most efficient use of human intellectual resources. This is why the
objective of education must be the development of human intellectual resources
which will become more and more in demand. The results of 60-year-long
scientific efforts aimed at the development of computer systems alternative to
humans and able to solve intellectual tasks without a human and instead of a
human turned out to be unsuccessful, with a rare exception (here belongs, for
instance, the creation of combat robots). Nevertheless, some scientists,
inspired by great successes in the development of computers, believe that the
problem of artificial intelligence (AI) will soon be solved. Moreover, they
state that in 2030, at the latest, following the successful solution of the AI
problem, an Internet-integrated computer civilization able to solve
super-intellectual problems will emerge on Earth. However, the manuscript
demonstrates that these assumptions are not to become true in the foreseeable
future, because humans are unattainably more advanced information machines
than computers. This is why the concept of artificial intelligence is an
erroneous and, moreover, detrimental way of development of computer
technology. Instead, the manuscript suggests the concept of development of
mass human super-intelligence, which can be successfully implemented already
in the nearest years.
Keywords: Human
Super-Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Technological Singularity,
Internet, Information Security, Personal Computer, Personal Memory,
Developmental Learning
Title of the Paper: The Design and
Evaluation of a Java-Based Software Tool for Teaching Page Replacement
Algorithms
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Authors: Sukanya
Suranauwarat
Abstract: Page replacement algorithms are one of the most important aspects of
a page-based virtual memory system. In this paper, a tool implemented as a
Java application and designed as an aid to the study of page replacement
algorithms is presented. This tool uses graphical animation to convey the
concepts of various page replacement algorithms including Optimal,
First-In-First-Out (FIFO), Least Recently Used (LRU), Most Recently Used
(MRU), Clock, Enhanced Clock, Least Frequently Used (LFU), and Most Frequently
Used (MFU) replacement algorithms. The tool is unique in a number of respects.
First, it differentiates the readaccess pages from the write-access ones,
since the cost of replacing a page that has been modified is greater than for
one that has not. Second, it allows the user to practice and test his
understanding of the concepts he has learnt through a very easy-to-use
graphical user interface. Third, it allows the user to compare the performance
of two different algorithms or that of the same algorithm with different
conditions in an easy manner. The tool has been used in an operating system
course and has demonstrated effectiveness in assisting student learning in a
statistically significant way.
Keywords: Educational
Software, Animation Tool, Computer Science Education, Page Replacement
Algorithms, Virtual Memory, Operating System
Title of the Paper: Telecommunications
Engineering Course Design
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Authors: Savitri
Bevinakoppa
Abstract: Telecommunication engineers design, develop, test and maintain
telecommunications systems. They are one of the driving forces behind recent,
significant growth in areas such as the Internet, mobile telephones and other
modern wired and wireless communications systems. This paper explains
telecommunication course design approach for under graduate and post graduate
levels. Main subjects in telecommunications engineering courses include:
Digital systems, Overview of digital communication, Telecommunication system
engineering, Telecommunication modeling and simulation, and Mobile and
satellite communication systems. This paper also explains core body of
telecommunications knowledge, course design and development based on current
industry trends and feedback received from professional engineers.
Keywords:
Telecommunications, Computer Networks, Sydney accord, Washington accord
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